Denver / Boulder Colorado (DBUG)

Welcome to the Groups site for the Denver/Boulder Drupal Users Group, where we discuss, share and find ways to provide local face-to-face interaction which can support activities like hosting speakers, providing tutorials, Question and Answer sessions, establishing relationships with others in the geographic area, and generally expand the community of Drupal users.

Colorado Springs meetings are on the 1st Wednesday of each month. See the SCUG Group Page.

Carbondale/Western Slope meetings are on the 3rd Tuesday each month, see the Western Colorado group for more info.

Northern Colorado (Fort Collins/Greeley) meetings are on the 4th Monday, see the Northern Colorado group for more info.

Other ways to connect: The #drupal-colorado irc channel generally has many folks in it, happy to help with Drupal problems.

While the group is primarily focused on Denver/Boulder, people in Fort Collins, Lyons, the mountains, the Western Slope or the plains are certainly welcome. Heck, we've even had folks from Wyoming and other surrounding states come by.

This month, Peter Weber will show how Aten built a Drupal-powered API for generating levels for an HTML5, SVG and JavaScript game engine. This system allowed content editors to create a limitless number of unique, hand-crafted levels for an early childhood education game without additional development costs.

Together we'll cover how we used Drupal to create configurable level entities, the tools and techniques we used to make an interactive game with SVG and JavaScript, and how we internationalized our audio instructions by integrating Drupal with the Watson API.

DrupalCon Baltimore is upon us. Like right now, this very moment. Developers and designers and managers from all over the world are gathered to learn about and improve on Drupal. And we're here in Denver away from the fun *sad face emoji*.

While we may not be able to attend the amazing after parties or get a fresh new collection of stickers for our laptops, we still have access to the wave of knowledge coming out of Baltimore this year. Keynotes and sessions are recorded and posted, so let's take advantage of that.

With the switch to OOP and the inclusion of many parts of the Symfony framework, Drupal 8 has (finally) moved into the modern era of web development best practices. Together with Marc Issacson (vegantriathlete), let's have a look at how some of those best practices are being put to use within Drupal 8.

Can anyone recommend a developer who could migrate a site from HTML into Drupal 7, probably before the end of the year? I don't yet have a formal RFP or job to offer, but would like to have a couple potential contractors to contact to see what they think the job might take.

This week, Gabe Sullice is going to show us how to write some simple unit tests for Drupal 8 and how to run them. If you've never tested before, this night is for you. We're going to start from scratch and work our way up to a working Controller/Service test suite in Drupal 8.

Pizza and socializing starts at 6:30 p.m.

Discussion and presentations start at 7.

At 8:30 we'll head down to Renegade Brewing Co to continue hanging out

The meet-up will take place at Open Media Foundation, just south of Downtown Denver. 700 Kalamath St. Denver, CO 80204

This month we are excited to have Neil Cousineau joining us to talk about access control. Access control is a vital part of any website as it determines which users can do what actions. It also allows you to hide certain data from users who are not allowed to view it.

Getting this setup correctly can be a tricky venture. Neil has quite a bit of experience with this at E Source and he's going to give us some tips on how to get this done correctly to ensure your secrets aren't leaking out.

A new year is upon us, let's start it off right. This month we'll have an open discussion about the next year of the Central DBUG. This is your chance to help shape our meetups, and voice ways to make them more valuable to the community. What topics would it be good to hear about for Drupal in 2017? For the internet and technology as a whole? Do you have something you've been itching to talk about? What things worked, and what could have been done better last year? How are you liking the pizza orders? We want to hear from you, so bring your thoughts.